Date:          Fri, 10 Jun 1994 15:09:25 +0100 (BST)
Subject:       re BWO 1844



John doesn't want to lose Seamus' suggestions, nor do i. Whilst 
suspicious about the distinction between the human body and the rest 
of nature, and agreeing with (1974) Lyotard that the category of 
alienation is hopelessly theological, the Marxist reference is a 
crucial one (the collapse of critique into insurrectionary war is the 
only way out of moralistic bullshit). The BWO as inorganic body: 
absolutely. Marx removes abstraction from philosophical idealism and 
relocates it in the monetary-industrial process, as exchangeability-
plasticity neutralizing power as increasingly anonymous economic 
control and dehumanizing the proletariat (production 'for itself') 
through deterritorialization-disorganization of the 'natural' body 
(cyborg becoming). Abstraction is matter degree-zero (BWO), no longer 
thought as the encasted pinacle of reason in stratified societies, 
but pragmatics interlocking the body into street deals, bottom-up 
micro-intelligence (Seamus said lots of excellent stuff about this 
too). 
    Telecommunism: cyberspace emerging from (/as) the postmodern 
planetary market-place and cooking private subjectivity in the 
anonymous burn-basin of schizophrenia, panicked power coming apart 
in the cyclonic free-fire zones of massively parallelized 
nano-cyberserk AI emergence, China-syndrome, irreversible social 
disintegration, and oedipus melting away through 'trodes into voodoo 
inhumanity. Megaconflict at the end of the world, and it's soooo 
cinematic (feedback through Hollywood going interactive, as the earth 
slides into LA fiction in flames. ((Don't mention the drugs and 
postbiological sex))).
    Wouldn't you just love trying to defend the New World Order? 
(Come on Clinton, you can do it. Hit the brakes man! Hit the brakes!)

      








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